Christopher Normandin
Christopher Normandin
Recent Stories
Fact, fiction, sex
While peeling potatoes yesterday with a classmate, I casually mentioned that I had been assigned to review Sex Week: The Movie. She seemed perturbed and set her knife down.
Hands together for “Lips together”
Terrence McNally’s “Lips Together, Teeth Apart” is a study of the way bodies turn away from each other, even as their voices crash together and come to naught. I would love to go back to Oren Stevens’s ’11 deft production of the play at the Whitney Humanities Center tonight and watch it with the sound on mute. Sure, I’d be missing the wonderful clash of dialogue, but would all fall short if the four sole figures only mimed their meaning?
Reviewer: movie needs more Apatow
“Role Models” takes some “Wet Hot American Summer,” a bit of “American Pie,” and only a dab (a dab!) of Judd Apatow, rolling them up into a jumbled and slightly remarkable mess.
Zac Efron’s face: WIN
Two middle-aged film reviewers, Peter and Janet, sit in a theater. They are waiting for “High School Musical 3: Senior Year” to begin.